Film

Where the Spirit Lives

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

6.0

1h 36m

1990

“A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...”

Synopsis

In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

Director

Bruce Pittman

Drama

canadaboarding schoolnative american

Cast & Crew

Michelle St. John

as Komi / Amelia

Kim Bruisedhead Fox

as Anataki

Marianne Jones

as Komi's Mother

Gus Chief Moon

as Ka - moos - ee

Clayton Julian

as Pita / Abraham

Margaret Cozry

as Grandmother

Marge Fox

as Anataki's Mother

Ann-Marie MacDonald

as Kathleen

Sean Mulcahy

as Priest

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